Testing Amiga E in Windows

I was able to start on some basic code the other day that I plan on posting, but I was asked to test PortablE for Windows. So that has been taking my time lately. I have been testing the new version of PortablE in Windows Vista and Windows XP. Things are going very well with just minor problems that Chris is taking care of.

I needed a C++ compiler for Windows because after PortablE does it’s job with the Amiga E code, then you have to use a C++ compiler to compile your .cpp file that PortablE creates for you. I decided I would like to have gcc. The best and easiest I found was Minimalist GNU for Windows or MinGW. This installed without problems in Windows XP, but with Vista it had a problem with placing the additions to PATH. In Vista just right click on “Computer”, go to “Properties”, on the left navigation click on “Advanced System Settings”, then click on the “Environment Variables…” button. At the lower portion of this window you will see “System Variables”. In that list is “Path”. Highlight this and click “Edit…”. This is where you need to add c:\mingw\;c:\mingw\bin;c:\mingw\libexec\gcc\mingw32\3.4.5\ to the end. This should allow you to run g++ from anywhere in the command line in Windows Vista.
Once I had g++, I was able to start testing my Amiga E programs created with PortablE!